Bulgaria Court Freezes BGN 41 M in Assets of Alleged Criminals
Crime | May 13, 2010, Thursday // 11:43| views
Stoyan Kushlev, head of the Committee in charge of seizing the illegally acquired assets in favor of the State aka the “Kushlev Committee.” Photo by bGNES
The Sofia City Court put Thursday a restraint on properties valued at BGN 41 M, owned by alleged members of the crime group known as “The Octopus.”
The restraint came on the request of the Committee in charge of seizing the illegally acquired assets in favor of the State or the so-called “Kushlev Committee”, named after its Head, Stoyan Kushlev.
The individuals arrested in February, during a special police operation, codenamed “Octopus” are investigated on charges of racket, illegal drug trading, prostitution and other criminal activities. Out of the 14 people detained only alleged ringleader, Aleksei Petrov, and his right hand, Marcelo Dzholotov, remain behind bars. Their restrained properties are valued at BGN 3.3 M and BGN 642 000 respectively.
Pertov is, however, not the wealthiest of all – in a TV interview Kushlev pointed out that the person with the most money is Plamen Stoyanov, one of the 2 Dambovtsi Brothers aka the Big Dambovets, whose assets are estimated at BGN 32.3 M and include an entire apartments building, farm lands, forests, 17 automobiles, 90 heavy trucks, companies' shares. His younger brother – Yordan aka the Little Dambovets, only had BGN 0.5 M, Kushlev said.
According to witnesses in the trail, a firm owned by the Dambovtsi Brothers and controlled by Aleksei Petrov provided security services for the Kremikovtzi steel mill, which paid him BGN 700,000 each month.
After the contract of Petrov’s firm was terminated, the troubled Kremikovtzi plant started paying only BGN 300 000 monthly for the same service to another company. An anonymous witness claims that Petrov threatened the former CEO of Kremikovtzi Alexander Tomov, when Tomov moved to terminate the security contract.
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